Environmental Management and Sustainability in India: Case Studies from West Bengal

Dr. Nilanjana Das Chatterjee is Professor and former HOD in the Department of Geography, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. She received her Ph.D. award from Burdwan University in 2009. She is an expert in the field of Bio-geography with special reference to human-elephant conflict in forest fringes and fragmented forest, Environment, Landscape ecology with special reference to urban ecology, Tribal Culture and Women's studies. She has nearly 25 years of experience in research and teaching, and has authored more than 80 national and international research articles with high impact factor journals and received many prestigious awards. She is one of the twenty women scientists recognized by wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. She is an enthusiastic IUCN Commission member of CEM. Six research scholars achieved their Ph.D. award and twelve students completed their M Phil degree under her supervision. She has completed a major project funded by ICSSR, New Delhi. Now she has completed a research programme funded by ICSSR on "Crime against Women West Bengal". She has authored the book "Man Elephant Conflict: A case study from forests in West Bengal, India" published from Springer in 2016 and co-author of the book River Sand Mining Modelling and Sustainable Practice: The Kangsabati River, India, published from Springer Environmental Science and Engineering Series in 2021.Recently she has published another book on GIS Application for crime prediction: A spatio-temporal analysis for crime against women in West Bengal, India. Being a devoted teacher her passion is to maintain a good student teacher relationship.

Dr. Abhay Sankar Sahu is an Associate Professor and former HOD in the Department of Geography, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He has also served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Kashipur M.M. Mahavidyalaya, Purulia, West Bengal, India. He pursued his B.Sc. (Honours), M. Sc., and Ph. D. in Geography from The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. His Ph. D. thesis is on 'Environmental Significance of Water-Front Embankments in South and Eastern Medinipur Coast' and he has been awarded in the year of 2010. His research interest covers Environmental Geomorphology, Environmental Geography and Hazard Geography. He is continuously engaged in study and research works on river morphology, waterfront embankments, flood and waterlogging, riverbank erosion, coastal erosion, ecotourism, EIA and EMP, remote sensing and GIS, geographical bigdata and machine learning. He has nearly 20 years of experience in research and teaching, and has contributed more than 45 research papers published in different reputed national and international level journals and edited volumes. He has completed as a Principal Investigator of a project sponsored by the UGC, New Delhi, India, on 'Toward an Exploration of an Embankment System in the Moyna Flood Basin', and also completed as a Research Investigator of a project under the UGC-BSR start-up grant on 'Environmental Consequences of Water-logging Problem in Purba Medinipur District, West Bengal: Evaluation, Mapping, and Management'. Presently he is working as a Principal Investigator of a project under the RUSA Component- 10 (Entrepreneurship and Career Hub), University of Kalyani, W.B., India, on 'Understanding the problems of homestay tourism in the Mousuni Island of Sundarbans and entrepreneurship development'. He has successfully completed a lot of courses, training programmes and workshops on geospatial technologies, climate change, data analysis and machine learning in geoinformatics organized by the reputed governmental institutions like NATMO, Kolkata; NRSC (ISRO), Hyderabad; ICFRE, Dehradun; IIRS, Dehradun; NRDMS-DST, New Delhi; DSTBT, Kolkata; etc. At present, he is guiding as a supervisor a number of scholars towards their doctoral degree and already five research scholars achieved their Ph.D. award. He is a life member of more than ten different academic associations and institutions.

Dr. Nilanjana Das Chatterjee 是印度西孟加拉邦維迪亞薩加大學地理系的教授及前系主任。她於2009年獲得巴爾德萬大學的博士學位。她在生物地理學領域具有專業知識，特別是針對森林邊緣和破碎森林中的人象衝突、環境、景觀生態學（特別是城市生態學）、部落文化和女性研究。她在研究和教學方面擁有近25年的經驗，並撰寫了超過80篇在高影響因子期刊上發表的國內外研究文章，獲得了許多著名獎項。她是印度德哈敦野生動物研究所認可的二十位女性科學家之一。她是IUCN CEM委員會的熱心成員。六位研究學者在她的指導下獲得博士學位，十二位學生完成碩士學位。她已完成一項由新德里ICSSR資助的重大項目，並且最近完成了一項關於「西孟加拉邦女性犯罪」的ICSSR資助研究計劃。她著有《人象衝突：來自印度西孟加拉邦森林的案例研究》一書，該書於2016年由Springer出版，並且是《河沙開採建模與可持續實踐：印度Kangsabati河》一書的共同作者，該書於2021年由Springer環境科學與工程系列出版。最近，她又出版了一本關於GIS應用於犯罪預測的書籍：針對印度西孟加拉邦女性犯罪的時空分析。作為一位敬業的教師，她的熱情在於維持良好的師生關係。

Dr. Abhay Sankar Sahu 是印度西孟加拉邦卡利亞尼大學地理系的副教授及前系主任。他曾在印度西孟加拉邦普里利亞的Kashipur M.M. Mahavidyalaya地理系擔任助理教授。他在巴爾德萬大學獲得地理學的學士（榮譽）、碩士及博士學位。他的博士論文題目為「南部和東部梅迪尼普爾海岸水邊堤防的環境意義」，並於2010年獲得學位。他的研究興趣涵蓋環境地貌學、環境地理學和災害地理學。他持續從事河流形態學、水邊堤防、洪水和積水、河岸侵蝕、海岸侵蝕、生態旅遊、環境影響評估（EIA）和環境管理計劃（EMP）、遙感和GIS、地理大數據及機器學習的研究工作。他在研究和教學方面擁有近20年的經驗，並在不同的國內外知名期刊和編輯卷中發表了超過45篇研究論文。他作為主要研究者完成了一項由新德里UGC資助的項目，題為「探索Moyna洪水盆地的堤防系統」，並且作為研究調查員完成了一項UGC-BSR啟動資助項目，題為「西孟加拉邦普爾巴梅迪尼普爾區積水問題的環境後果：評估、繪圖和管理」。目前，他作為主要研究者在卡利亞尼大學RUSA組件-10（創業與職業中心）下進行一項研究，題為「了解蘇丹班斯Mousuni島民宿旅遊問題及創業發展」。他成功完成了許多由知名政府機構如Kolkata的NATMO、Hyderabad的NRSC（ISRO）、德哈敦的ICFRE、德哈敦的IIRS、新德里的NRDMS-DST、Kolkata的DSTBT等組織舉辦的地理空間技術、氣候變遷、數據分析和地理信息學中的機器學習課程、培訓計劃和研討會。目前，他正在指導多位學者攻讀博士學位，已有五位研究學者獲得博士學位。